Tanglewood Tales Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Published: n.d. [c1900]. DESCRIPTION: Cream spine and half cloth with decorative floral pattern. Remainder of boards covered in different floral pattern. Gilt upper edge to text block. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, 284pp, 15cm by 10cm. Book Condition: Good: Heavy wear to top corners. Wear to edges with small loss of cloth to top edge. Lightly rolled spine with little wear to spine ends. Intact clean endpapers with prev owners name to ffep dated 1900. Tear to middle of tissue guard toward page gutter edge. Cracked gutter to page 6/7 with netting visible - see photo. Clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: No DJ BOOK RESUME: Hawthorne wrote these stories for children based on Greek myth and legend. They are incomparable retellings of themes which the Greek dramatists used in creating their immortal plays and literature. Contents: The Gorgons Head; The Golden Touch; The Paradise of Children; The Three Golden Apples; The Miraculous Pitcher; The Chimaera; The Wayside; The Minotaur; The Pygmies; The Dragons Teeth; Circes Palace; The Pomegranate Seeds; and The Golden Fleece.